Photographer Joshua Kristal hit the ticker-tape parade for Super Bowl champions The N.Y. Giants in Manhattan on Tuesday, and caught some great shots after going into, as he puts it, “non-violent assassin” mode, to get past the police and barricades for a good vantage point. After finding his perch in an optometrist’s office, Josh caught some luck when Eli Manning, the victorious Superbowl MVP quarterback, looked up, waved his trophy and gave a smile. Manning truly loves South Brooklyn.

Josh’s plan of attack: “I first had to access the side-streets of Broadway which were entirely blocked off from Bowling Green to City Hall. After casing for awhile, I cut through a Holiday Inn which spit me onto a side street. I then scammed my way into a 11-story pre-war building off of Broadway telling the security guard I was headed to the 6th floor. He said, “Are they expecting you?” I answered, “of course!”

I stopped at the 6th floor and the elevator opened into a 80-year old optometrist’s office with people all wearing Giants jerseys and hanging out the windows watching the parade. They gave me carte blanche. I had come to photograph the ticker-tape, entranced by its serene beauty as it slowly floats through the air on its way back to earth.